As the Hudson community chooses sides today with a vote for or against renaming the project and moving development away from Oracle, the creator of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi made "One last plea" in the Oracle divorce drama:
1 replies - 29460 views - 01/28/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
I'm sure you've read the news about Apache leaving the JCP, effective immediately. Well DZone has been checking the temperature of the Java community ever since yesterday's announcement and we're finding a lot of heat out there—in blogs, comments, and...
6 replies - 7140 views - 12/10/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
DZone has just learned that the Apache Software Foundation issued a formal letter annoucning their resignation from their seat on the Java SE/EE Executive Committee. 95% of the JCP voting community had recently ratified Apache for another term on the...
14 replies - 9481 views - 12/09/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
This week, Bob Lee, who is best known for leading JSR-330 (Dependency Injection for Java) and creating Guice, declined an invitation to participate in the Java SE 7 and 8 expert groups. The decision was tough, but he made it in response to Oracle applying...
2 replies - 23225 views - 11/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The geeks here at DZone (I count myself among them) were discussing the recent round of heat that Oracle has been taking in the press and the blogosphere. Then we imagined a world of fantasy where similar struggles were taking place. This is the Realm of...
15 replies - 12033 views - 11/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
The results are in for the much talked about JCP election, and most people will be happy to hear that Hologic were not ratified. Meanwhile, congratulations are due to both Eclipse and Google, as both have been elected.As stated in the JCP blog
0 replies - 5898 views - 11/02/10 by James Sugrue in Articles
It was very surprising this week to find that Oracle employees actually responded to some of the bad press surrounding their company as of late - namely, the criticism surrounding Doug Lea's departure and the JCP. Oracle's response to Lea's departure...
0 replies - 18506 views - 10/26/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Dear Oracle,
I hate to tell you but you need some help with the Java community.
The basic problem is that people don’t trust you and you aren’t very
good at community building; in fact you are pretty bad at community
marketing.
16 replies - 13192 views - 10/22/10 by Ian Skerrett in News
While everyone talks about the slip of the JDK7 schedule, I found another piece of information from Reinholds announcement much more noteworthy:
As always, our intent is that JDK 7 will ship concurrently with a Java SE 7 JSR, and likewise for JDK 8 and...
5 replies - 7581 views - 09/11/10 by Jörg Buchberger in News
For the seven months that Oracle has owned Sun's technological assets, they have welcome contributions and roadmaps for their inherited open source projects. However, the company has also made several crucial missteps in its handling of OSS projects and...
13 replies - 6673 views - 08/15/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
In this interview, Jesse Davis gives us an update on what's happening at the JDBC expert group in the JCP. Right now they're preparing for a maintenance...
1 replies - 10577 views - 06/14/10 by Lyndsey Clevesy in Videos
It's been one week since Oracle laid out its roadmap for all things Sun, including the Java Community Process, and it seems that most developers are optimistic about the future of Java. In the webcast last week, Oracle said it wanted to make the JCP more...
1 replies - 9944 views - 02/03/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
Oracle has laid out its strategy for integrating Sun's resources - Human and Technological - into their own company infrastructure. The company plans to invest $4.3 billion in R&D this year, and between last year's Oracle OpenWorld and now, the message...
9 replies - 26098 views - 01/28/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
After migrating to Sun's Project Kenai.com as the first Expert Group, JSR-275, the "Units Specification" is happy to announce Public Review.It already started just before Christmas with review ballot by the Executive Committee starting as of...
0 replies - 2167 views - 01/22/10 by Werner Keil in Announcements
Final approval voting for the Java Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform (aka JSR-299 and CDI) will finish today and the results will be published on December 10th. Pete Muir, the project lead for the JSR-299 reference implementation,...
3 replies - 8865 views - 11/30/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Articles
